A leisurely start & I cooked bacon & eggs in the camp kitchen to set us up for our big day out.  Our first short drive was to Lights Beach where we stood on the lookout & enjoyed the vista of the Southern Ocean & a few new wildflowers.  Next was the drive back out onto the highway through some karri forest close to Denmark & we made our way to the Denmark Meadery where we promptly sampled all six of the different meads available (all before 10am).  Our favourite was the spiced mead. The honey was sampled next & our favourite was the karri flavour so we bought a tub of it, plus the obligatory double ice cream cone.

Back out to the highway & down to Greens Pool where we walked down on to the beach & wandered amongst these massive boulders on the beach, some coloured with red or orange algae.  The water is crystal clear & the different colours of the water are brilliant & contrast so well.  The views along the beach are stunning & the photos don’t come close to capturing the beauty.  The beach very close next door was Elephant Rocks & indeed from the right angle & with the right light, you can imagine one of these massive rocks sort of resembling an elephant.  The collection of giant granite boulders next to each in the little bay is very scenic none the less & the path down to them had lots of little & big lizards sunning themselves.

Our next short drive was to Madfish Bay, where we didn’t see any mad fish jumping out & saying catch me, cook me & eat me, though it is quite pretty.  Next to that was Waterfall Beach where a small freshwater waterfall cascades out onto the beach.  Having exhausted our morning we headed into Denmark to the prize winning bakery & bought some pies & pastry for lunch & took them down to the mouth of the Denmark River to enjoy.  We didn’t think they were that special, they couldn’t have had too many good bakers in the competition or maybe we are used to better. However, the view of the river & the old railway bridge was very nice, we even observed a duck guiding six very cute ducklings for a swim under the bridge as well as a stately pelican floating down the river effortlessly.

We headed off to Monkey Rock Lookout, a long walk up a steep hill then a climb onto some very large granite boulders.  Hard work but the view was spectacular up & down the coast.  We met some American uni students, two of them studying at Sunshine Coast Uni, on top of the rock  & walked back down the Bibblemun Track with them to the car park. They were nice young girls enjoying their time in Australia (they are the first lot of Americans we have come across).   We didn’t see the monkey face.

On the way back to the caravan park we stopped at the lookout overlooking the local surf club where we had a very good view of the sandbar blocking Wilson Inlet from the ocean, again, very pretty but windy & cool.  Off to the Karavan & I did a bit of car checking in preparation for our long journeys ahead.  Tereza made me a coffee & I finished off the last of my birthday fruit cake.

Tereza prepared a wonderful pumpkin soup followed by some nachos to watch the footy. (no red wine).  If this continues I will have withdrawal symptoms – good thing we will be joining up with Sue & John early tomorrow morning,

The nights are so cold it is preparing us for home – we haven’t too long to go now.